Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-12
HELP YOUR OWN TOWN.
The Best Methods to Employ in
Making a Boom.
Patronize Home Observation-Disclosures
! Y0ur Money at Home--Give the
Home Newspapers support--Stand
by Your Home.

With q few rare exceptions, booms
were never known to be started on wind.
and if they were the subsistence of the
breeze left the boom shriveled, sick and
almost lifeless Booms as gems
eral thing are fleeing affairs that
fade away like morning dew before the
rising sun, leaving majority of those who
have ''monkeyed" with them in a frame
of mind bordering upon dependency.
The best way to boom town is to pat
70 nize home industries, even if the price
is little in excess of that offered by out
side parties. If this sensible policy is
pursued it will no. be great while uns
til your home factories and other local
industries are placed on a sound financial
basis. This once accomplished they are
in a position not only to meet outside
competition, but to underbid it and fur
nish, in a majority of instances. better
quality of goods or other material than
competitors This all applies very peril
nently to Rock Island just at this time.
The first great essential to the general
welfare OF any community lies in the
requirement of homes by populace
This once accomplished every citizen
feels Jealous pride in his city and bends
every energy toward its prosperity. He
is financially interested and makes
better citizen in every respect. Cities
having large floating populations are
seldom permanently prosperous, for at
the first intimation of trouble these
nomads pack their extensive wardrobes
IN collar box and fade away to some
favored place With regard to the &C
quirement of homes, Rock island offers
extraordinary Inducements. No more
beautiful residence sites can he found
than those accessible to and around Rock
Island Persons possessed of very mod
crate means, and in fact those who have
no means and are industrious and econo~
mical, can easily secure good home
within reasonable time through the
Rock Island Building & Loan Associa>
ton. or through the real estate agencies
OF the city. Homes once secured. and
habits of saving induced. the next move
of the average man will be in the drec-
ton of laying away of surplus earnings
for rainy day and in few years. in,
stead of being community of borrowers
it becomes a community of loaners.
Encourage home manufacturers. The
money they pay out to employees is scat
tered to large extent among the mer,
chants, who in consequence feel the thrill
of renewed pulsations in the pulse of
trade. The Des Moines Leader censures
one of the Iowa capitals corporations
for buying brick in Rock Island. Why
should not Rock Island manufacturers be
patronized by Rock Island people? Give
your patronage to home dealers and they
will thrive. Their thrift implies prosper
ity to others, and soon the whole cons
munIty is prosperous and happy. Build
up home industries and home enterprises,
it will encourage others to locate in Rock
Island. If every factory in Rock Island
was known to be in a prosperous condi-
ton, it wouldn't be twenty-four hours un>
til the hotel registers would be filled with
the names of persons DESTROYS of locating,
and they would not stop to ask bonus
either. They would he only too anxious to
pay good prices for land, and in a week the
music of the saw. hammer and trowel
would greet the ear on every hand No
idle men would loiter on the streets
Everybody would wear white shirts and
eat pie with fork
Then let merchants. manufacturers and
wholesale dealers let the world know
what prosperous city Rock Island is
through the medium of its newspapers
A most accurate idea of the business of
a city or town may be formed from the
displayed in the local news
paper columns. If you have goods to
sell do not be afraid to let the world
know of it. The newspapers will ALWAYS
be found ready and willing to meet the
business men beyond the half way line.